On the shallow waters of Lake Pertobe waders and water birds abound <br />The white royal spoonbill with dark legs and long spoon like bill is often seen shuffling around <br />Bill in water head moving side to side for water dwelling life forms to eat <br />Such as small fish and shrimps and molluscs that to their taste buds do taste sweet <br />Where white eyed duck, blackduck, chestnut and gray teal in large numbers are to be seen <br />For waterbirds Pertobe is a safe haven to a more beautiful place I've not been <br />The big birds the black swans and pelicans, the cormorants the black and pied, <br />The moorhens, great egret, the coots and the swamphens in and around Pertobe reside, <br />The little grebes tiny and elusive of humankind wary and shy <br />The shoveller ducks beautiful creatures at least sign of danger quick to fly <br />By park tables silver gulls assembled for food scraps from picknickers they cry <br />To the backdropp of the Pacific Ocean that rumbles and grumbles nearby <br />In the children's Playground at Pertobe the parents watch their children at play <br />A beautiful place for to visit on a sunny and a pleasant day.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lake-pertobe/
